CREATING THE CHALICE:
Imagination and Integrity in Goddess Studies
The Association for the Study of Women
and Mythology
Biennial National Conference
Holiday Inn, Fisherman’s Wharf
San Francisco May 11-12, 2012.
Advancing our scholarship involves the evolution and refinement of our methods. Suggested topics for this exciting conference will include, but are not limited to, the following lines of inquiry:
- What are new paths for the field of Women’s Spirituality and Goddess Studies? How creative can we be? Are we inventing, reconstructing, or using creative license to reawaken and bring the past into the present? How do we evaluate this work? How can we use this creative work together with more “traditional’ approaches to advance our scholarship?
- What are new models and methods for our scholarly inquiry? Can we develop and advance our scholarship with methods such as Organic or Heuristic inquiry? What is Spiritual Autobiography, and how can this be useful? Sacred geography? What else? How shall our new methods be evaluated? What are our criteria for solid scholarship using these new models?
- What are the complexities around issues of Cultural Appropriation? How do we understand and address the tensions around rootedness and local culture on the one hand, and issues of lineage and history on the other? Are there new models of scholarship that honor history and culture while simultaneously enriching our scholarship?
Our goal is to include academic presenters from many disciplines and backgrounds, as well as creative artists and practitioners who engage mythic themes in a scholarly manner in their work. Experiential workshops and a film series are also offered. Presenters must become members of ASWM prior to conference.
About the chalice: see Susan’s work at www.SweetwaterPottery.biz
Hello, I would like to donate some statuary and/or gifts for award recipients for the conference, and also find out about advertising opportunities in conference programs. Can’t seem to find any contact info. I’m a new member. Thank you, Suzan Vaughn, http://www.goddessgift.net
Do you have a book table or library at your conferences? My book from 1990 is out of print, but it’s (in my humble! opinion) a classic, and I’d like to offer a copy to your conference if you send me a good address where it will be kept safely for people to consult. The book is THE REFLOWERING OF THE GODDESS by Gloria Orenstein (me)…and the publisher was Pergamon Press, Athene Series, and later when that closed down, Columbia Univ. Teacher’s College Press. It woudl be a gift for your conference. All the best, Gloria Orenstein